Can science and religion be compatible or at odds

It isn't science that religious people have a problem with it is evolution that religion has a problem with. You can find a lot of science in the bible if you look for it. I don't believe in the evolution because to many time the dating method is very flawed. The RATE group in 1997 did a carbon rating test on coal from 10 different sites and found them to be less than 100,00 years old. These scientists were Larry Vardiman, PhD Atmospheric Science Russell Humphreys, PhD Physics Eugene Chaffin, PhD Physics John Baumgardner, PhD Geophysics Donald DeYoung, PhD Physics Steven Austin, PhD Geology Andrew Snelling, PhD Geology Steven Boyd, PhD Hebraic and Cognate Studies

Of course there are scientists who believe in God and there are many Christians and believers in other religions who are also scientists. I think evolution and the bible are compatible if you take the bible as allegorical and not literal. I believe even Einstain believed in God. If you ever took a poll of all the American astronauts (they are scientists also) you would find many that also believe in God.

Well I firmly believe that god does exist, and I also believe in the big bang theory. Namely because they have discovered heat left over from the explosion in space. If you have faith and are in the scientific field I feel that this would be the way to go. Hence the bumper stickers saying "god said bang and it happened" It seems to be a safe medium if you ask me. And I dont see why the two can't coexist.

Yes, there is a happy medium. I doubt that most scientists are atheist. Prof. Henry Schaefer of Yale in his book Science and Christianity: Conflict or Coherence, published in 2006, says that there are only two atheists Chemistry prof out of 50 of them. And Richard Bube, chairman of Dept of Material Science at Standford Univ under whom 56 Ph.D scholars had successfuly finished their doctoral remarked that there are as many atheistic truck drivers as atheistic scientists. In fact, if we read the history of Science scientists like Kepler, Polanyi, Newton, Boyle, Pascal, Faraday, Maxwell, Stokes, Kelvin, J.J. Thomson, Coulson et al are all Christians. Even today Scientists like Francis Collins, National Director of Human Genome Project, is a scientist and he believes in both evolution and Big Bang. There are prolific theologians like John Polkinhorne, also a mathematical Physicist, Alister McGrath, also a molecular biophysists who are engaging with interaction between Christian religion and science. Faraday Institute of Science and Religion has all sorts of lectures and articles by finest Scientists in their own discipline, trying to integrate Science and Christian Religion... and nobody considers them as heretics, both in Science as well in Christian Religion. Regards, headhunter525

I am spiritual (not religious) and I believe in God. I quit religion and became Spiritual because Religion was incompatable with Science. The Bible is a book of Myths, which explains why it is Unscientific. God is Love, love is Energy, Energy is God. This to me is Scientific Fact.

I think there are a select few who can see things that lie in the grey area. Those who truly have a relationship with God, and seek His infinite wisdom, can see the truth in SOME science. And those who truly love science, and don't try to use it to disprove God will see the truth in His existence. As for the religion part of your question, God isn't interested in Religion, He is interested in a relationship. So religion and science will always but heads, and the reason I see for that, is the fact they are out to prove each other wrong, and it will never happen. If God designed this world, the inhabitants of it, and the universe that surrounds, than surely he understands science for he created it too. But the people of this world will not live to see the truth in that statement, because their intentions are out of whack.

I dont think there will ever be a happy medium between the two. Religion will always blast science if something they say isn't in the Bible. I believe in evolution but I also believe in some of the science stuff they say too. I dont really know if I believe the Big Bang Theory. I don't think everything was written in the Bible. I think they are endless scientific possibilities.

very very interesting topic and very debatable too . I am a very spiritual person , not very religious minded , but i do believe somewhere there is something called as god. For me my biggest god is my own conscience. I would suggest you to read this novel angels and demons by dan brown. He has explained the relation between god and science beautifully. Its a must read if you really want to find a answer to this. One of the lines in the novel "Science and religion are not at odds. Science is just too young to understand." Its simply superb. I am sure you will be blown away. ~pinks~

A lot of people who believe in evolution are religious. Some Christians do have the ability to look at the book of Genesis and see it as a parable, rather than a historical account. Moses has been credited with writing the book of Genesis. Would he have been able to understand DNA and mutation? I suppose if there is a god, that he could have just inserted all that information into Moses' brain, but if there is a god, it's apparent that he wanted to see what humanity would be able to do on our own. Giving Moses such a complete understanding of genetics would have altered human history to some extent. Or maybe Moses just didn't feel like writing all that stuff down.

According to the Baha'i Faith (which I am a member of) religion and science are two sides of the same coin and truth can only be found if one looks at both sides of the coin.

In essence, they are both after truth. So, if both are seeking truth there should be no problem. The problem is when folks leave objective truth behind and start bringing in their own biases and emotional ideas -- that's when things get off track and science and religion may seem in conflict. It all comes back to TRUTH.

KARL MARX said "religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand" by saying that he didn't mean there is no GOD ...... It is absoloutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature.what can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves. so i wudn't say that GOD does not exist! but going to religious places surely does not make him happy and shower his blessing on you! on the other hand science tries to establish logic in everything.if u havn't noticed ... modern science is moving towards spiritualism ... "natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself the natural science:THERE WILL BE ONE SCIENCE!"

They both answer the same questions, they both take different aproach to finding those answers. Science and religion will always be at odds, they contradict each other at their very base - Science will look for facts, the simplest of answeres, basing each answer on proven facts and bringing a new idea - that's how the answers are found. Religion brings answer without proof - "blind faith" like it was said.

Friends; The One Whom the Bible are telling us is the God of Wisdom/Science. He is Above all wisdom. He is the Perfect mathematician,engineer, chemist,physicist name it all..... because all wisdom came from Him. Why do people contradict God to Science if God Himself is Science or Wisdom. Isaiah 55:8-9 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than you thoughts." ---many conceptualize that science and its branches are really stablished by facts experimented and studied by scientist. But on my view.... scientist only copies and studies the FACTS/WISDOM which already have been stablished long before we exist. Scientist observed the things around us, both seen and cannot be seen by our eyes. Study them and afterward walahhh a new discover, new formulas, algorithms etc. but frankly scientist just acquired knowledge from things theyve observed, but they leftbehind the fact that SOMEONE created all those things theyve been observing and studying. True science/wisdom that came from God is perfect. It doesnt change through times. I you observe carefully many scientist have their own theory...evolution, big bang, the earth was flat and not round/circle........ where all these wisdom of then came......? 1 Corinthians 1:19-20,25 "For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?....Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger then men,.....That no flesh should glory in his presence." Science only contradicts religion/God when humans try to impute his own ideas/thinking. There facts that already written in the bible long before the so called science of man discovered. Before we discover that the earth is round, God already declared it: Isaiah 40:22 "It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth.." before we discover the gravity and solar system, it is already written: Job 26:7 "He strecheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing." It is very clear that God is The God of Science/Wisdom because He Himself is the Wisdom, whom all of us cannot deny. All we have to do is to accept the Truth that: There is someone higher than us, far more knowledgeable than us, that we have to submit our whole being to Him and even our mind/thinking Lamentations 3:35 "To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High" I recently found this site, and I got a lot of good things from it. go check it out www.esoriano.wordpress.com www.truthcaster.com God Bless to all us Thank You for your patient. Pardon me for my poor english, it is not my native tounge